Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.Found in 1734 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Willis Cassell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1984-170
Abstract
Papers of a Wythe County, Virginia, Lutheran minister, farmer and businessman and his family. Includes Cassell's personal, professional, and business correspondence; the personal correspondence of his wife and children; financial and legal records; diaries; notes on catechetics; and scrapbooks containing historical sketches of various Lutheran Churches, obituaries, family-related social events, and newspaper clippings concerning Cassell's services as pastor.
Dates:
1883 - 1950
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Census of Surviving Confederate Veterans in Wythe County (reprinted),
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-063
Abstract
This collection consists of a printed list of Confederate veterans living in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1897.
Dates:
1897 - 1897
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Center for Civic Activity in the Town of Blacksburg: A Design Competition
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-1995-013
Scope and Content
A design competition sponsored by American Institute of Architects. Member the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies of Virginia Tech which focused on a new town center. Solicitation of submissions began in 1992 and the winner was decided the following year. Materials include brochures about the competition listing winners, committee members, jurors, calendar, entrants, and competition managers, with the jury report; a poster advertising and...
Dates:
1992 - 1994
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Certificate, by Governor John Letches regarding the commission to Colonel for Robert Preston, Va, May 5, 1861 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F2_Commission__1861_0505
Certificate, Commission to Col of Infantry to Robert T. Preston, signed John Letches, August 23, 1862 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F10_Commission_1862_0823
Certificate, granting Col. Preston a medical leave of absence. Signed: Saml. A. McConkey, Near Centreville, November 23, 1861 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F7_MedLeave_1861_1123
Certificate, Medical Examination of Lieut. Col. Samuel Paul, Signed Medical Director of the 2nd Division, Army of the Potomac, Richmond, February 5 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_MedCertificate_0205
Certificate, Medical Leave, Signed: O. W. Hearn, March 7, 1862 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F8_HearnOW_1862_0307
Certificate of Election, Abraham Hulton, Justice of the Peace, Randolph County Va., June 24, 1860 (Ms2010-060)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_HultonCertificateofElection_1860_0624
Certificate of Election, Justices of the Peace, Randolph County Va., June 24, 1860 (Ms2010-060)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_MillsCertificateofElection_1860_0624